All Columns articles – Page 53
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – new superheavy elements
Scientists in Russia and the US created elements 113 and 115
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OpinionRinging the changes
A chemical manufacturing plant is a whole new world compared to the lab, as Chemjobber explains
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OpinionComputational chemicals
Philip Ball explains how creative chemists are teaching molecules some new tricks
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OpinionTools of the trade
Derek Lowe wonders what the most life-changing instrument for organic chemists is, and what might be missing from the toolbox
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OpinionPeak oil is not a myth
Fracking won’t plug the gap in crude oil’s falling figures, says Chris Rhodes. Oil’s exhaustion is inevitable
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Letters January 2014
An isotopic anniversary, climate scepticism and the origins of Bragg’s Law.
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OpinionBeelzebub Pharma Ltd
Derek Lowe thinks the Devil’s R&D management schemes might be scarily familiar
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OpinionVirtually excellent
Assembling a dream team of international researchers could offer a useful snapshot of the UK’s strength in chemical engineering, says Mark Peplow
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OpinionIndoxamycins A, C and F
BRSM gets to the core of a divergent synthesis of this natural product family
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – counterfeit coinage
XRF spectrometry helped to sort real money from fool’s gold
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OpinionArsenic and old waste
William Bains worries that scientists are losing their way in the wild frontiers of research
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Opinion
Sense and sense ability
Philip Ball is surprised to discover just how sensitive we are about our feelings
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OpinionWe choose to go to the muon
Subatomic sorties have uncovered strange new species, says Philip Ball. Should we give these alien atoms a place at the table?
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OpinionIs there a drug for that?
Derek Lowe ponders whether anything is truly ‘undruggable’ if we look in the right places
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OpinionThe morning after the night before
Replacing alcohol with a more benign drug sounds like a great idea, but it faces insurmountable hurdles, says Mark Peplow